In Brief (two items)

NEW YORK - Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. hired a six-person team of technology investment bankers from Deutsche Banc Alex. Brown, raising the number of analysts and bankers dedicated to winning business from computer, software, and electronics companies to more than 100.Peter M. McGowan, a managing director with more than 12 years of experience at Alex. Brown, heads the team. Doug Bradley, a senior vice president, and vice president Joe Stone also were hired.

Lehman has also established a 15-person industrial technology investment banking group, hiring Lauri Cleveland from Merrill Lynch & Co. for the New York office and Kirk Fleischer from CIBC Oppenheimer & Co. to work with communications equipment companies.